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Chocolate is a Spanish loanword, first recorded in English in 1604, [1] and in Spanish in 1579. [2] However, the word's origins beyond this are contentious. [3] Despite a popular belief that chocolate derives from the Nahuatl word chocolatl, early texts documenting the Nahuatl word for chocolate drink use a different term, cacahuatl, meaning "cacao water".
Chocolate is also used in cold and hot beverages, such as chocolate milk and hot chocolate, and in some alcoholic drinks, such as crème de cacao. Although cocoa originated in the Americas, West African countries, particularly Ivory Coast and Ghana, are the leading producers of cocoa in the 21st century, accounting for some 60% of the world ...
A tropical evergreen tree called Theobroma cacao bears large, oval pods containing the bean-like cacao seeds that today are roasted and turned into cocoa and multitudes of chocolate confections.
A cocoa pod (fruit) is about 17 to 20 cm (6.7 to 7.9 in) long and has a rough, leathery rind about 2 to 3 cm (0.79 to 1.18 in) thick (varying with the origin and variety of pod) filled with sweet, mucilaginous pulp (called baba de cacao in South America) with a lemonade-like taste enclosing 30 to 50 large seeds that are fairly soft and a pale ...
A Man Milling Cacao into Chocolate with a Metate and a Mano. After the domestication of the cacao tree over 5000 years ago, [3] indigenous Americans began producing cacao beverages. The earliest people known to have used the cacao plant are the ancient Mayo-Chinchipe people of what’s now Ecuador in circa 3300 BC. [4]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 January 2025. Heated beverage of chocolate in milk or water For other uses, see Hot chocolate (disambiguation). Hot chocolate A cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows Region of origin Mesoamerica Color Brown or chestnut Flavor Chocolate Ingredients Chocolate or cocoa powder, milk or water, sugar ...
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